Barrel-head retainer.



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Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

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EDWARD W". ROBINSON, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL BARREL COMPANY, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, A CORPORATION OF GEORGIA.

BARREL-HEAD RETAINER.

Application filed August 23, 1915.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD WV. ROBINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Savannah, Georgia, have invented certain Improvements in Barrel-Head Retainers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to so construct a barrel head and to so secure it'in place in the barrel that it can be applied to or removed from the barrel with facility and without injuring either the staves or head, and when applied to the barrel will be firmly retained in position therein. This object 1 attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan View of one end of a barrel having therein a head constructed and secured in place in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line ar-a, Fig. 1; F ig. 3 is a transverse section on the line b b, Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a view similar to a part of Fig. 1 but illustrating a modification of my invention; Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line c-o, Fig. 1, and Fig. 6 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 3 but illustrating still another modification of my invention.

In Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawing the barrel staves are represented at 1, these staves being bound together by means-of pairs of wires embracing the staves and crossing or being twisted together between the staves, the outer and inner wires of the end pair being represented, respectively, at 2 and 8 in Figs. 2 and 3. It should be understood, however, that my invention is not necessarily limited to a wire bound barrel of this type.

The head comprises opposite segmental Side members 4 and a central transverse member 5, each of which members may be in one piece or in any desired number of sections, as desired.

To the ends of the staves 1 is applied a hoop comprising an end member 6 resting upon the ends of the staves and outer and inner members 7 and 8 bearing, respectively, upon the outer and inner sides of the staves near the ends of the same, said hoop being, by preference, split and having overlapping ends, as shown at 6*, 7" and 8 in Fig. 2, whereby it is adjustable to barrels of different diameters.

The member 8 of the end hoop has, at its Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented fiept. 5, 1916.

Serial No. 46,935.

free edge, an inwardly projecting flange 9, and in the outer edges of the side members 4 of the head are formed slots for the reception of said flange, as shown in Fig. 8, consequently, when these members of the head are engaged with the flange 9, they are effectually retained in place against either upward or downward movement.

The central member 5 of the head is also, by preference provided at one end with a slot for the reception of the flange 9, as'

shown in Fig. 2, but at the opposite end said member 5 of the head is rabbeted, as shown at 10 in Fig. 2, so as to overlap the flange 9, and in order to prevent vertical separation from the flange 9 of said rabbeted end of the head member 5 the latter is locked in place vertically by means of a transverse batten 11 supported at its ends upon the side members 41 of the head and secured to said side members by means of screws 12, as shown in Fig. 1. When this batten is removed, however, the rabbeted end 10 of the central member 5 of the head is free to be lifted from the flange 9 until it is above the end hoop and can then be withdrawn laterally from engagement with the opposite portion of the flange 9, after which the side members 4 of the head can be withdrawn laterally from engagement with said flange and the head thus completely removed from the barrel, reapplication of the head being effected by a reversal of these operations.

Instead of slotting the central member 5 of the head at one end and rabbeting it at the other, it may, if desired, be rabbeted at both ends, and instead of engaging with the inwardly projecting flange of an end hoop on the barrel it may, if desired, engage with the inner wire 3 of the end pair of retaining wires of the barrel, as shown for instance in Fig. 5, and two retaining battens 11 may be used, one at each end of the central member 5 of the head, as shown for instance in Figs. 4. and 5, and in case the side members 1 of the head are slotted to receive the inner wire 3 or flange 9 and the ends of the central member 5 of the head simply rest upon the same the batten 11 may be offset centrally, as shown in Fig. 6.

The lapping portions of the ends of the hoop, when the latter is employed, are preferably in line with a rabbeted end of the central member 5 of the head, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the double thickness of the flange 9 presented at that point will not interfere with the application of said central member of the head.

I claim:

1. The combination of a barrel having an internal head support near the end of the same, with a head comprising side members with grooved edges engaging and vertically confined by said support and a one-piece member resting at its ends upon said support, and a batten carried by the side members of the head and bridging said central member so as to retain the ends of the latter in position upon said support.

2. The combination of a barrel having an internal head support near the end of the same, with a head comprising side members with grooved edges engaging and vertically confined by said support, and a one-piece member grooved at one end to engage and be vertically confined by said support and rabbeted at its opposite end so as to rest upon said support, and a batten carried by the side members of the head and bridging the central member of the same so as to retain the latter in its seat upon the internal head supporting member.

8. The combination, in a barrel, of the staves, a hoop embracing the ends of said staves and having, on its inner side, an inwardly proiecting flange, ahead composed of side and central members, said side mem bers having edge grooves for the reception of said internally projecting hoop flange and said central member resting upon said flange, and a batten secured to the side members of the head and bridging the central member so as to maintain the latter in its seat upon the flange.

4. The combination, in a barrel, of the staves, a hoop embracing the ends of said staves and having, on its inner side, an 1nwardly projecting flange, a head composed a like flange-receiving groove and at the opposite end a rabbet overlapping said flange, and a batten secured to the side members of the head and bridging the central member so as to retain the latter in its seat upon the flange.

5. The combination, in a barrel, of the staves, a split hoop having overlapping ends, said hoop being applied to the ends of the staves and comprising outer, end and inner members, the latter having an inwardly projectin'g flange, a head comprising opposite side members with grooved outer edges for receiving the inwardly projecting flange of the hoop, and a central member likewise grooved at one edge to receive said flange and rabbeted at the other edge so as to rest upon the same, the overlapped portions of the hoop being engaged by this rabbeted edge of the central head member, and a batten secured to the side members of the head and bridging said central member so as to vertically retain the rabbeted end thereof in contact with the inwardly projecting flange of the end hoop.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDXVARD W. ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

J. A. BOURKE, J. E. TAYLOR.

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